chopstick

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (plural-normally) An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length.
2. (ethnic, slur) An Asian person.
3. (obsolete) A long straight stick forming part of various fishing tackle arrangements.

Verb

To pick up (food), or eat, using chopsticks, or as with chopsticks.

Concetti

bacchette

bacchetta

bastoncino

bastoncino cinese

bacchetta cinese

sinonimi

chopsticks

🥢

knitting needle

lollipop

🍭

stick

Traduzioni

Essstäbchen

baguette

palillo

eetstokje

pausinho

Stäbchen

bastonet

baguettes

pauzinho

Eßstäbchen

عَصًا الأَكْل

eetstokjes

أَعْوَاد اَلْأَكْل

هَاشِي

Etimologia (Inglese)

Apparently a compound of chop + stick, but the sense of the first element is not clear. The eating utensil sense (attested since 1637) is presumably a transfer of sense from the earlier fishing tackle sense (attested from 1615), based on physical resemblance.
The common derivation from Chinese Pidgin English chop(-chop) (“quick”), a supposed calque from Chinese 筷子 (kuàizi, “chopstick”), derived from 快 (kuài, “quick”), is chronologically impossible as Chinese Pidgin English did not come into existence until the 18th century.